Method of arranging tickets for street-cars.



L. P. LIPPS. I METHOD OF ARRANGING TICKETS FOR STREET CARS.

APPLICATION FILED APR.10, 1911.

Patented Feb. 13,1912.

LOUIS Llll OE CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO LOUIS P. LIPPS, TRUSTEE, OF ONE- I-IALF FOE HIMSELF, ONE-FOURTH. FOR WILLIS L. NESTCOT'JT, AND ONE-FOURTH F63 GEORGE C. WING, ALL OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

METHGD OF AI HANGING TICKETS STREET-CABS.

1 5M]? 4' 1- $peeificatien of Letters TPatent. Patentard Yeah, 13, 1912. Application filed April 10, 1911. Eerie No. 620,180.

To all it 7mm it may concern Be it known that 1, Louis P. LTPPS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of small extra charge, of one cent, or more.

5 0M h i t d a new d f l Upon the surrender of the main ticket and Method of Arranging Tickets for Streetthe payment of this extra charge, the con- 60 Cars and Similar Purposes, as to hich I ductor punches and. issues a transfer slip or h by d cl th foll i t be, a f ll, ticket to the passenger, as the evidence of his clear, and exact description, reference being right to transfer to another car, which must 10 h d t th d i th t accompany d be specially given up to and received by the make a part of the specification, in which conductor on the car to which transfer is 6 drawings the same parts are designated by mode. This system, as practiced, may inthe same letters throughoutthe several lig- E, D the Operations of a single company,

ures.

to and finishing their ride on a connectin line, 18 given to passengers who have ptud one tare upon the payment by them of a the separate collectingand handling by con- 15 The invention relates to and is more par- (rifle/DOTS of y 11111110115 0f the mmor @0111- ticnlarlv concerned with the class ortickets 10 annu lly, with a corres DODdIH oi the kind in question which are issued =11 amount of petty details on the part oi: other so d in sets 01* eries connected torrether if). a 611'! olo ees that li- 1S dQSlI'iLblG t0 avoid. while s ngle P1369 o gti p i' 'gm yvhlch the ndp the inevitable HLClClQIlCS 0f ltS QIIl'OfCBlflGi'll) 2tvidual members of the series may be so are a frequent- Source of annoyance to the arately detached as occasion demands. k0 traveling public, and of constant delays in tar I know the only manner of makhe c eduled running of the cars and opering up a series of this sort that has heretoations connected therewith, :foro been proposed is by printing the requiin the drawings Figure 1 represents a 25 site number of tickets on successive and uniseries of six blank tickets arranged accordforni rectangular portions of a blank of to one method coyered by the invention, cardboard, or similar foldable material, and, Fig. 2 the same series when doubled with transverse scores or perforated lines of back upon themselves for convenience of separation. between the same along which carrying, 3 is a like series when made 30 the tickets may be folded, one against the accord ng to another rule, and Fig; 4, the

other, into a compact form for carrying, and l same series when similarly folded up, and be severally torn awa as required for Fig. 5 a set of tickets adapted for the The packet thus mace up is of course of l transfer systems referred to. he precise superficial dimensions of the reln 1 rectangular tickets a, a, rt, are 3 re members thereof, with each ticket arranged through the series alternately with :actly corresponding or registering, in resimilar tickets Z), i), Z). The latter, however, spect to its relative location, with. every are slightly wider than the former with the ner ticket in the set, and without any tanresult that, when the tickets composing the gible distinction between the same. it re-- series are bent over against each other along 40 su ts that the tickets to be used are not the dotted lines in the figures. the folds thus ily selected and separated from the rest, formed will alternately overlap and under 9 d in consequence, in pay-enter cars, for inlap the next adjacent told in a succession of stanc the entrance or" other passengers 1S step-like projections along the opposite sides of the packets, on the front and rear face of 1 thesanie, that afiord a means by which the packet can. be readily opened out, and the 10.9 l tickets disconnected in the regular order in l which they occur, A like succession of proi further set out herein a special arrangeections may be brought about at the ends ment of tickets for the purposes under conof a packet, (instead of at the sides) by sideration that is intended to meet the refolding the tickets obliquely across the sheet often held back-while a ticket being diseo joined and deposited, and in all cases ther liability that a passenger will tear off and surrender a greater number of fares than). is intended.

quirements or conditions of the systems of upon the dotted lines shown in Fig. 3. In transfers that prevail in many cities. in this case the blank composing the tickets is these systems, the privilege oit changing over rhomhoidal in form, being a parallelogram with oblique angles, wherein the adjoining sides are unequal.

The device illustrated by Fig. 5, consists of a rectangular sheet divided into equal ticket spaces by transverse scores or perforations, indicated in the drawings by the dotted lines. These spaces are themselves out by a similar score or line that extends at right angles to the same at a uniform distance from the side of the sheet. The sheet is thus divided up into a series (in this case) of six oblong detachable tickets a, which may serve for the initial or main fare, and a smaller detachable ticket or coupon e', at the end of each ticket (Z, to serve in the place of the cent, or other coin, that now must be handed in as the price of a transfer. When the face value or .denomination of the ticket proper is divisible by that of the coupon, it is evident that, by making the number of tickets in a given set a common multiple of these values, the coupons may be broken up into and used as principal tickets and without leaving odd coupons of less value than the main fare upon the sheet. Tickets, with transfer coupons made up in sheets in this manner may thus be the only form in which tickets are issued, and may be sold to passengers indiflerently without regard to whether they are to be used inconnection with transfers or only for uninterrupted rides. If the denomination or unit value of the principal ticket is three cents, for instance, and of the transfer one cent, as in Fig. 5, the card or sheet should then contain either three main tickets, and corresponding coupons, or siX, nine, etc. If such values are respectively four and two cents, the set should be made up of two, four or six tickets, and, so on in similar cases. The adoption of the plan disclosed in Fig. 5, will accordingly reduce the transactions connected with the privilege of street-car transfers to a minimum, and

merge the same, for the most part, in the purchase of the principal tickets to which such right is incident. Obviously, the coupons 6 may be given adequate dimensions to be punched or stamped to take the place of and answer as the transfer-slips themselves, which will of course, further simplify the process of transference as now practiced. So too, the same arrangement may be conveniently used in connections where diflerences in accommodations or conditions are to be reconciled by a difference in fares, as where first and second-class cars are used in the same train, different grades of compartments or seats in the same car, or, when the quality of service afforded passengers in the same car materially varies in other respects.

Manifestly, the several methods of-folding hereinbefore pointed out and illustrated'for sheets of ordinary tickets, can be applied to and adopted, with equal advantage, for sheets to which coupons are attached as just explained.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. As an article of manufacture, a series of tickets for street-cars, detachably connected together along their sides, and having alternate members ofthe series of different width from the rest, substantially as shown and described.

2. As an article of manufacture, a rectangular sheet of tickets for street-cars, with weakened folding lines across the same between the tickets at alternately difierent intervals, substantially as shown and described.

LoUis r. LIPPS.

In presence of- W'innis L. Wns'roo'rr, Gno. W. SPELLMAN. 

